Google Inc.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced earlier this week on the company’s official blog that it plans to build about a hundred of its prototype driverless cars and begin testing them on…
GoogleGoogle (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced Tuesday that it has begun building prototypes of a fully self-driving car. The search engine giant won’t be offering the new car for sale, at least not yet. These prototypes…
Toyota To hear some analysts and auto enthusiasts tell it, it’s a done deal: The car of the future will be battery-powered. That’s the big bet that Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) and…
Standard & Poor's examined Tesla's debt and did not like what it saw. It issued a B- rating, which is below the level that categorizes the debt as junk. The assessment may…
The Google driverless car has taken another step toward becoming a real consumer product with real sales. It will launch cars onto U.S. streets this year.
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is not exactly the sort of company you think of with a corporate credit rating call. Standard & Poor’s has issued a rating of…
Jon C. Ogg If General Motors ever has to recall the 2014 Cadillac ELR, the numbers are not likely to make front page news. In the five months the car has been available, GM has…
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, said in late April that he was suing the U.S. Air Force for awarding an exclusive contract for 36 rocket launches to a joint venture…
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsAccording the PwC’s 17th Annual Global CEO Survey, 79% of automotive CEOs believe that technological advances will transform their business in the next five years. Kind of makes you…
Bayerische Motoren Werke AGBMW calls them the i3 and i8. They are, in reality, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) killers, and worthy ones. The i3, sells for as little as $42,000, which is about two-thirds…
Douglas A. McIntyre Just as Wall Street is cooling to the prospects of Tesla Motors, the electric car company faces the likelihood that it will need to fight one more state for the right to…
Douglas A. McIntyre thinkstockMay 8, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday and posted solid gains on a good report on new claims for jobless benefits. Momentum stocks lost their get-up-and-go in the afternoon, though, and…
Tesla shares opened lower Thursday morning, following the company's disappointing earnings report Wednesday. What probably hurt the stock most was the forecast that R&D spending will rise about 30%.
Paul Ausick These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Thursday, May 8, 2014. They include Chevron, Exxon, FedEx, Merck, Tesla, Twitter, Disney and Yelp.
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported first-quarter 2014 earnings after markets closed on Wednesday. For the quarter, the electric car maker posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of…
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